Hey There!
So (ellipsis) no progress on the scale this week.
Here's the hic-up in the giddy-up for last week, if you will and I hope you do. (I have already made significant improvements on this for this week BTWs)
This problem goes by different names. A fast food chain is currently calling it "4th meal." A few weeks back I called it "dinner 2." Whatever you call it, it is eating when you should be going to bed.
One of Bob Harper's Skinny Rules is "Go to Bed Hungry." That is one that I am focusing on this week. I am also really working towards "No Carbs after Lunch." (I did it today)
For as long as I can remember, I have always wanted to (so I did) go to bed full or almost full. It has always felt comforting and even if mostly psychological, it seems to help me to fall asleep. There is maybe a bit of truth to that, but most of it is in my head, I think.
I have been very successful in the past not eating past dinner or eating just a bit of lean protein if I was very hungry. That is what I am doing this week.
I am sure it makes sense to everyone that this is a good idea. Mostly it makes sense that our bodies do not burn off much of those calories, because we are sleeping. Then our bodies just stow those calories away for a rainy day. I am trying to tell my body that every day is that rainy day and that it needs to burn all that it has stowed and stop stowing more!
This week I am also working out every day. (I did not work out Monday however. That's my Fun Day. My I don't have to run day.) I did work out the past two days and I will do some sort of working out each of the remaining four days. (there I wrote it, so I have to do it! If I do not, may millions of sugarplums dance non-stop in my head for the next 7 years!) (I dont even like sugarplums, so I can not have them doing a perpetual cha-cha.)
It is October 2. My goal for this month is to lose 8 lbs by November 1. Totally doable goal, but those 8 lbs are not going to lose themselves. I need to lose an average of 9 lbs every month for the next 10 months to reach my goal. That is totally doable, but I need to get off my culo and make it happen everyday! Challenge Accepted!
Take away for this week: Continue to have the courage to face the barriers that are threatening to keep you from success! What defines us is what we do with those barriers and how we overcome them, no matter how long we have allowed them to keep us away from our goals. Take 2 barriers this week and do them at least Half as much. Just at least Half as much this week. After you start seeing and feeling the difference from that, you can figure out how to take it the rest of the way!
Rome was not built in a day, and real change is not determined by what we are able to accomplish in a day.
Have a good week!
Scuba
1 comment:
ok steve. i love your posts. they make me smile. you've got a way with words. you come across as a like-able guy....buuuuuuuuttttttt, i feel like there is more inspirational talk going on than the necessary level of action and i'm going to call you out. i say this as someone who is doing negative action myself, and i really want to be better myself! it's so hard. i've gained 20lbs this year, the 20 that i lost last year. booo.
are you drinking 100oz of water a day (especially a full glass before meals)? are you keeping your salt intake down (i tried to go on a jerky only diet earlier this year and it didn't work. damn salt haha. i love jerky). are you eating a protein breakfast within a half hour of waking up? maybe make a rule that you can only watch tv if you are working out at the same time? what is the best kind of comment motivation for you? if i call you out does it make you mad or does it make you motivated? can you convince yourself that that flat empty stomach feeling feels AWESOMER than full stomach sleepy bedtime feeling? i personally love that empty feeling. and hopefully that doesn't sound like a bad thing. i feel so yucky going to bed with a full stomach. what can i do for you? let me know!!! fear is the only darkness!!!!!
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